Casual Care Club Assistant

Hollingworth Primary School, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 8LP

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  30 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  13 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13.05 - £13.47

Casual Care Club Assistant job summary

Prestolee Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint a warm, caring, and enthusiastic Care Club Assistant to join our team at Hollingworth Primary School. The successful candidate will support the effective delivery of before and/or after-school care club provision, ensuring pupils are safe, well cared for, and engaged in a nurturing and stimulating environment.

This is a casual relief position, with working hours offered on an as-needed basis to provide cover within the care club provision.

Who We Are

As a group of schools, Prestolee Trust has a shared vision. We act as one organisation and bring context to individual needs. Our schools are geographically close and yet serve diverse communities. The vision describes the future that speaks to that community.

 

The vision for Prestolee Multi Academy Trust is that our children are prepared for the next stage of education and life in modern Britain. This means children have access to a broad rich curriculum offer with a wide range of activities. We believe in an inherently strong core of English and Mathematics, together with strong specific academic foundation subjects focused on knowledge and skills.

 

We strive for excellence in quality first teaching. Career progression opportunities and development of knowledge and skills through CPD, networks and other professional programmes and training are key to our success. Our trust is relentlessly focused on improvement; in self, in others and in the organisation.

 

About You

We are looking for a person who has:

• Experience working with children in a school, childcare, playwork, or care club setting
• Level 2 English and Maths (or equivalent)
• A warm, caring, and child-centred approach
• The ability to build positive relationships with pupils
• Good communication skills with children, staff, and parents/carers
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team
• An understanding of safeguarding, child protection, and health and safety
• The ability to manage behaviour positively and calmly
• Flexibility and adaptability to meet the needs of a relief role
• A willingness to undertake training and develop own practice

A relevant Level 2 childcare or playwork qualification is desirable but not essential.

Our Offer 

• A dynamic and developing Multi Academy Trust of schools with a SCITT for career development in teaching and learning. 
• Opportunities across the Trust to widen skills, experience, and professional development in a variety of settings
• Welcome, friendly, and inclusive schools within the Trust 
• A committed Trust and School leadership and committed multi school teams
• Well-motivated pupils 
• A Trust committed to staff wellbeing and career development for all 

 

Closing date: Friday 30th January at 12pm

Interview/observation: w/c 2nd February 2026

Start date: ASAP

This Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services and a statutory Pre-Employment Health Check. 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Hollingworth Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 199 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hollingworth-primary-school

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